Mailing-wrapper.



PATENTED MAY-19, 1903.-

. L..E.BARNBS.

MAILING WRAPPER. APPLIUATIQN FILED APR. 7, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

awn-4 mi Wm l WfZ/Vffifi UNITED STAT-ES j Patented May-19, 190a PATENT OFFICE.

LEROY E. BARNES, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANCIS E. PALMER," OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

MAILING -W RAP'PER.

srncrrroarron forming part of Letters Patent No. 728,435, dated m 19, 1903.

Application filed April 7, 1902. $erial No. 101,615. (No model.)

' To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEROY E. BARNES, a citizen of the United States, residing at T0- ledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Im-' provements in Mailing-Wrappers; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has reference to a mailingwrapper for third-class or open mail-matter, and has for its object to provide a simple, durable, and inexpensive wrapper which may be effectually looked after the article is once placed therein and at the same time permit inspection thereof. It is particularly designed for wrapping photographs, catalogues, pamphlets, and the like, and comprises the simple and novel arrangement hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the wrapper in blank prior to being folded. Fig. 2 illustrates the same folded. Fig. 3 is an enlarged edge, view of the wrapper, showing the upper and lower flaps of the same overlapped and interlocked. Fig. 4 is on enlarged view insectional perspective, showingthe means employed for locking the wrapper, the section being taken on line a so, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective of the tongued flap of the wrapper, showing the tongue thereon pressed inward prior to locking.

The wrapper is constructed of a single piece of paper'of a quality and thickness to permit of bending without being easily broken.

1, on the outer face of which the address may be written, the end flaps 2,. the lower slitted flap 3, and the tongued flap 4., The blank is scored in process of manufacture along the lines 5 to permit the several-flaps to be'folded upon the body portiontoinclose the photograph or other article contained in the wrapper V The novel feature of eonstruction which my invention contemplates consists in the means employed for locking together the flaps 3 and 4, respectively. The flap 3 is provided the wrapper come together.

Fig. 1 shows the blankiof the wrap per, and the same comprises a body-portion "ofthe wrapper.

with a single plain straight slit 6 cut transversely'in the-same adapted to receive the reduced end 7 of the flap 4. This slit is of substantially the same size as the width of the reduced portion 7, whereby the latter fits snugly therein. The flap 4 is provided with a tongue 8, severed from the body of the flap along one side on a transverse line, as at 9,

and on short end lines at right angles to said transverserline and yet connected therewith at 10, the severed portion being adapted to extend in the blank toward the body portion.

1. The blank is scored along the line 11 to facilitate bending the tongue inward. All

the scoring is thus on one side of the blank.

The operation of the device is asfollows: The end flaps 2 are folded inward to overlap the ends of the photograph or'other article adapted to be inclosed by'the wrapper, and thereby effectually prevent the same from falling out of the open ends of the'wrapper. Theslitted flap 3 is then folded over the end flaps. The tongue 8 having been pressed inward by running the'finger along the same,

, Fig. 5, the reduced portion 7 of thefflap 4'is inserted in slit provided inthe' fiap 3 and is] pushed inward and then drawn back slightly, when the wrapper will be'effectually locked, the tongue 8 instantly springing-in ward after entering the slit of the flap, owing to, the resiliency of the paper of which the wrapper is constructed, but such-tongue be ing held in locked position when the sides of The contents of the wrapper may be easily inspected by pressing apart the upper and lower edges of the same, as indicated in Fig. 3, the.article on the interior-appearing through the open ends his evident'that the blank forming the wrapper may be additionally scored and folded along lines equidistant from the line 5, so as to form abox-wrapper. This is, however, not an essential part of my invention, as I do not wish to confine myself to any special formof wrapper.

From the foregoing the extreme-simplicity of construction andope'ration-of myinven-- when the operation will be apparent to even a person having no knowledge whatever of simple mechanical operations.

The utility and novelty of my invention will be apparent.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

A mailing-wrapper formed of a single blank of paper or like stiff material, scored entirely on one side and comprising a body, two end flaps, one side flap formed with a single, plain, straight transverse slit, and a second side flap formed with a reduced portion substantially the width of and adapted to enter the slit and having a transverse tongue within and narrower than the reduced portion, the tongue being cut from the reduced portion along a transverse line and then from the ends of this line at right angles thereto on short lines extending outward away from the body, and scored across its shank whereby it is adapted to be bent slightly out of the plane of this portion on a second transverse line connecting the outer extremities of said short lines, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEROY E. BARNES. Witnesses:

CARL H. KELLER, FRANCIS E. PALMER. 

